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How to Lose Friends

\Today is a beautiful day. You people are lucky because you can hear to present.

Ladies and gentleman, I would have to ask you to drop everything you are currently doing and listen to me for the next 10 minutes. That includes you Mr. Hamid. My proposal is incomparable to what are about to receive from my mouth so please just listen. Hitherto you all have heard about 19 presentations and some are good while most not so. Today, you are going to hear the best. Because I am the best. It might be, the best you’ve had for the past few semesters Mr. Hamid. Most of you would try very hard to emulate me, to want to be me, to want to be able to present like me. But please, don’t be too hard on yourself when you fail. It’s just not that easy. To those who have presented, I praise you for doing an average job but I think your marks are about to be revised down a notch. And to those who will be presenting after me, I wish you more luck because the benchmark will be set, this high.

Arrogant snob.

Am I insulting you? Do you feel like you’ve been maligned? If you don’t feel anything, you must be really really naïve or well just too dumb to comprehend. Ladies and gentleman, I had no intention of doing any of that. What I did was to let you experience how an arrogant snob of a friend can make you feel. Honestly, did any of you felt like beating me up there and then? Well, you’ve just learnt first hand how to lose a friend. You might be wondering, did I even point out anything? Listen on. Do not be surprised, arrogance is not something we deal with everyday. In a group of friends, we are always nice to each other. Yes we do joke around and be discourteous sometimes but it’s all in good humour. But when a friend crosses the line and keeps bragging and insulting us we feel, threatened to use a socially correct term. We start to dislike this particular friend and if the insults and arrogance do not cease, we begin to grow hostile. If any of you are planning to lose a certain someone. Just do what I did.

Be Difficult and complain all the time

If however you’re not planning to lose some one but a group of ones, then it’s seriously simpler than counting to 3. All you have to do is just be yourself. You have to agree with me that we are more accommodating and more compromising when we are around friends. We tend to yield to the wants of many and many of us bury our own opinion to look aligned with the direction set by the group. It’s all very sociable.

To be anti-social, you’ll just have to voice out anything that pops into your head. If you feel like eating KFC while the rest wants to eat McD, voice your wants. When they still insist on going to McD, show your temper or threaten to go alone. They will most probably yield to your will once, twice maybe even a third. Nevertheless, when this opposition happens too regularly, you will indefinitely be sidelined for someone more accommodating.

If that doesn’t pull the trigger, you might need to start complaining and whining all the time. Friends, we hang out with friends to have fun and enjoy ourselves. We spend time together to feel better with our lives and to make time pass just a wee bit faster.

Is it any wonder then when a whiner appears and disrupts the feel good atmosphere we start to stay away? He whines and complains all the time and his constant doing makes us feel uncomfortable and bad. All he talks about is how sucky and terrible his life is. We might be able to sympathise and lend an ear a couple of times. But when we are surrounded too regularly by this negative energy, we start to feel repulsed. Sooner than later, the group will decide to ditch this whiner. So, whine like a female dog. And I digress.

Be Selfish and Possessive

There are some people who suffer from inferiority complex and may require constant encouragement or guidance. Act as though all your friends possess this psychological malady. Control his/her life like you’re playing The Sim’s online. Hey, we have to take care of our friend’s right? But take it to the next level, pretend that he can’t think for himself and that YOU know what’s best for him. He wants fries and burgers? Say NO! Have an apple instead! Decide everything for him even though he didn’t even ask for your opinion but ignore him when he really needs a friend. If he is going through a rough patch, tell him you are busy, you have to take your neighbour’s dog for a walk. But, expect him to drop everything to help you with your problems, no matter how trivial.

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You’re better and they are servants

Since we are on a roll here, you might as well treat your friends like your humble servant. Do not ask but demand that favours are completed. When you need to get your car fixed or you feel lazy to do assignments. Get your friend to do it for you. Do not even attempt to come up with excuses, you don’t owe him any. He is obliged to do it for you because he is your friend. Your wish must be obliged because you are better than him. You are the sun that brighten ups his sad and sorry life. He should be grateful that he is friends with such a superior person.

Constantly highlight that you’re richer, smarter and more accomplished than he is. Flaunt your wealth like you mean it. Belittle him when he share his achievements with something greater that you have done or haven’t do but thinking about doing. It doesn’t really matter.

Selfishness is a key to be labelled as an unworthy friend. The strings of friendship will crumble in the grasp of an iron hand

Girlfriend and best friend

Ladies and gentleman, I am about to teach you one of the most subtle ways to break up with your partner. The only consequence is, you will lose a friend in the process. Invite your best friend to go out with you and the love of your life often. What you would think is “It is great that my partner and my best friend are getting along so well, the three of us can go and hang out together” - more people, more fun. Also, you want the 2 important people in your life to be amicable so that you’re not stuck between a rock and a hard place.

You also think it’s great to have an extra helping hand. 2 guys can achieve more in an hour what a guy and girl can do in 2 hours. Except in making babies. What happens in the real life? Your best friend begins to call your partner more often than you would like and they seem to have loads to talk about. You shrug it off thinking they must be talking bout how wonderful a guy you are.

But Every time you ask your friend out, he seems to be doing something. It’s just so happens that your partner suddenly says she’s very busy and have to work even late at night. You have some suspicions but still accept what is happening - probably it’s just a coincidence. Next thing you know is a wedding invitation from them where you are on the guest list!!! Now you are out of your friend and your partner’s life. Talk about killing 2 birds with one stone huh?

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

I have been speaking on how to destroy friendships for so long I have outstretched myself. I have forgotten that the easiest way to destroy something is to weaken the very foundations it is built upon. Everyone has a past and that includes your friend. Live your life as though you’re the center to everything. You don’t have to inquire about their past, heck why do you even care when you’re not in it? It’s only worth knowing if you’re part of it. Don’t ask about what have happened in their lives and don’t tell them what you went through either. Maybe he was a pole dancer before or a medic who worked in afghanistian, saving hundreds of life. Maybe you were of the opposing sex before this. You don’t have to be interested in all that, it’s not even interesting! Assume that your friend is uninterested in your life story too. Sharing is not recommended.

If you don’t inquire about your friends or tell them a little about yourself, you are like 2 separate entities bound together with nothing. And if there’s nothing to hold it together, it is bound to separate.

Ladies and gentleman, although I have shared some pointers on how to lose friends, I seriously do not recommend taking such perverse actions unless really necessary. Unless a friend has been a real pain in the ass and we’ve decided without regrets that he is unworthy of our time and love. There is no turning back after embarking on these actions and if when you start to regret, a sorry is truly insufficient. So I urge you to take note of but not try these actions IF you find yourself unconsciously doing any of these, stop and correct yourself. Friends are truly one of the most important things one has in ones life. One more friend is better than an enemy.

Thank you very nice.

Oral

I've gotta present tmrw for my oral assessment. Test just dont sound very university-like dont you think?

I've got no mood to practice. I think if i forget my script i'll just start rambling off something about someone. Yes i have a script. I shall post it up tmrw after my presentation.

Probably going through once more will suffice. That once more is dreadful. But i expect that 15% to be mine. In full.

Sometimes i wonder why i am such a kid.

Sometimes i wonder why people can be such a kid.

B for

When it comes to language, there is seriously no easy way to learn them. You wanna be good you gotta pour in effort which means pouring in hours.


Shit am i resigned to getting a B again for french?

On another note, i have recently embarked on a challenge. It will last me throughout the whole semester when im on campus. It does not hold true for when i am in K.L.

What i have to do is that, i'll have to budget my expenses which are limited to RM 10.00 per day. Special occasions do not apply of coz, say for instance edmond's farewell.

Life is getting tougher. Tak Budget betul.

Little Cottage 2

It's a saturday and we knew we will be bored so we made plans to have a day out to ourselves. She needed to go beautify her face whilst i needed to get out of this rut to complete my oral presentation script. So much trouble just for 15 marks, i would prefer not to. But hey, i'm promising quite a spectacular performance then.

We left around 1300 hrs with me driver her car. I think she thinks my car's too old for her. Hmmmmm.

In JES

I was starving! No supper the night before and being woken by the kind sun at 10-ish emptied my stomach completely. Acids were breaking down the walls of my stomach that instant.

Which was why seeing the golden arches almost brought tears to my eyes. It just looked so damn beautiful. I love it!

Mcd is lovely. Truly.

There were the 2 of us.

1 Chic Mcdeluxe, 1 fillet o fish, 1 nugget. SETS. and 7 plates of chilli.

I dont think i need to explain further.

After our magnificent lunch we headed to Butterworth where she went to do her thing and me mine.

Old town coffee rip.

It used to be Starbucks. I was still blindly hoping to find a Starbucks here but it has moved. I scouted the whole ground floor on Megamall -Special thanks to CHUA YIE SUE for pointing this out, megamall not sunway- not wanting to believe that Starbucks has closed down. I settled into this little place which charged me RM 4.20 for a glass of ice lemon tea. Rip off.

I had wanted to write "we had each other for dinner" as a joke but i suspected some of you might think it's true hence not making it very funny. So i took it off.

Dinner was set for a little restaurant called Little Cottage 2. It had quite a good review on the internet for it's price for valueness and good ambience.

Baby

The entrance was the only thing nice about the place which unfortunately is blocked by her head. I apologise for her insolence.

The menu looked good on the outside though. Old schoolish and well..... old schoolish.

After about 20 minutes to decide on the what we wanted to eat, we finally ordered. The thing was, the price wasnt pricey but it wasnt cheap either. ~Dont trust the internet so much no.1~

Fir thing served was bread with butter. Now you might be waiting for me explaining how delicious or how aromatic the butter smelt. Sry no, it's just plain bread with butter.

We next had fresh mushroom soup served. This my friends tasted good. The were grinded mushrooms and chopped mushrooms. Every spoonful you drop into your mouth you are greeted with mushrooms. Truly worth RM 9.90.

Come here ONLY for this.

Our main dish consisted of a grilled norwegian salmon for the lady and a medium-rare ribeye steak for the man.

Bad

From first look it already seems a tad over-grilled to me. And when i tried it i find it be lacking in freshness a bit. The taste was also a little off. ~Do not trust the internet no.2~

Awful

I was already worried when every i told the waiter medium rare, he nodded his head and repeated medium well. I must've said it like 3 times medium-rare to him and finally just gave up and waited. ~Dont trust the internet no.3~

My worry was well wounded. It was well truly. The sauce was a uncompromising mixture of black pepper and brown sauce. The thing i singularly find nice about this steak is the grilled potatoes. Total failure.

But we had something that salvaged the night just a wee bit.

My Love

We've decided that we're not gonna come here again. Except maybe for the soup. It's seriously not worth the trouble and the time. I'd rather be writing oral scripts than eating this.

then

We had each other for supper. ;)

DigiWap Cheater!!!

DigiWap has cost me around rm100 in my latest bill. Digi's a blardy cheat.

I am damn sure i was at home and connected to my house's wifi. It's the only way i can go online anyway. Yet, there was still a charge by DigiWap.

The customer service told me that they wouldn't charge anything once im connected to a wifi connection so he's helping me to send a dispute to the digi.

I want my rm100 back even if it's not going into my pocket. I just dont like being scammed. REBATE ME BITCH!

Weekends i enjoy

Today is a sunday. Sundays are mostly good day because i get to sleep till very late and no one's gonna give shit. It's also good because Saturday was a great day and that Mondays are full of shit.

I used to.... nowadays the sun rays banged open my eyes at 9-10 ish. I dont get to do the thing i favour most. I think i need to change the curtains. But then that costs money. Something i really need nowadays.

But i still enjoy my weekends. Weekends are good. Weekends make me feel lazy. I opened Microsoft word to start on my oral presentation, but alas, thats all i did. Open up a blank document, Not a single alphabet typed.

And i crashed on my bed for a lil siesta. Thats 30 mins well spent. I enjoy the weekends, they treat me good.

Toyoda killing toyota

Once the envy of the world of manufacturing world, the creme de la creme the best of the world's best. Toyota is now mired in a series of recalls due to it's manufacturing failure.

" Toyota is recalling almost 430,000 vehicles in the US and Japan amid concern over steering problems. "

14 recalls so fast for the year of 2010 with the famous sticking accelerator pedals that killed a number of people in the US debacle at the forefront. Read here

What's happening Mr. Toyoda? Are you running your company down the grave?

Chelsea's married!!!



Chelsea Clinton.